Vilson Caković

Vilson Caković

Personal information
Full name	Vilson Caković
Date of birth	(1991-02-22) 22 February 1991
Place of birth	Gornji Milanovac, FR Yugoslavia
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team	Apolonia Fier
Number	1
Youth career
1998–2004	Takovo
2004–2009	Crvena Zvezda
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2009–2011	→ FK Sopot (loan)	8	(0)
2011–2012	Balkan Mirijevo	27	(0)
2012	AIK Jönköping	33	(0)
2013–2015	Apolonia Fier	17	(0)
2015-	Vitanovac 08
National team
	Serbia U-16	10	(0)
	Serbia U-17	15	(0)
	Serbia U-19	15	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Vilson Caković (Serbian Cyrillic: Вилсон Цаковић; born 22 February 1991 in Gornji Milanovac) is a Serbian football goalkeeper.^[1] He started his career in his birth town by playing for youth of Takovo, where he was spotted by Crvena Zvezda scouts. Since 2004 he has conducted his career through the youth ranks of Belgrade-based teams.

Senior career

Since 2011, he played for Serbian League Belgrade side Balkan Mirijevo with success and already has five man-of-the-match awards (four in a row, against Žarkovo, Zemun, FK Beograd and Dorćol), with average rating over 7.5. He finished the season with average rating 7.07, and became Balkan Mirijevo player of the season. After one year in Balkan, he moved to Swedish AIK Jönköping, the subsidiary of the Assyriska Föreningen that plays in Superettan. After a successful season in Sweden, when the club managed to gain promotion, Caković went back to Balkans. In February 2013 he signed a contract with Albanian Superliga club, Apolonia Fier.

Awards and honours

• Best Keeper : Europa Unita 2007, international U17 tournament in Italy.
• Best Keeper : 2008 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, in Turkey.
• Best Keeper : Lafarge Foot Avenir 2008, international U18 tournament in Limoges (France).

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